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The Blade Runner thread made me think of other great soundtrack themes. Recently saw The Duchess with Kiera Knightley while on an airplane. OK movie but great soundtrack. Here's the end titles. Nice piece of classical music.

End of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon



And the song that follows



The quality of the music on these youtube vids is equivalent to what you get from iTunes, once you convert it to mp3.

Agreed Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon has a great soundtrack. Yo-yo Ma did a great job there. But the English version of Yue Guang Ai Ren by Coco Lee is not so good. It doesn't flow and makes no sense. The Chinese version above is much more complex and has a nice flow, even if you don't understand the lyrics.

Sometimes the soundtrack is better than the movie.


Nyman's Wonderland above, for example.

I'll check out the Duchess. That did sound nice and both me and the misses like Keira.

Very Guilty Pleasure: Giorgio Moroder's soundtrack to 1982's "Cat People." Some of it is crap, but then you've got David Bowie singing "Putting Out Fire (With Gasoline)." Plus it always brings back memories of Nastassia Kinski getting tied to the bed and screwed, which was a major formative influence on the adolescent me. Heh.

http://www.amazon.com/Cat-People-Soundt ... 642&sr=1-1

Higher-brow pleasure: "Tous Les Matins du Monde." Mostly cello, all beautiful.

http://www.amazon.com/Tous-matins-monde ... 836&sr=1-3

Jack wrote:Omega Man is a long time favorite.

I can't remember the music to Omega Man. Rob Zombie's "Creature of the Wheel" has supplanted it forever, I fear.

Good but so varied as to be fucked up: "A Clockwork Orange."

Desperado was good. Decline of Western Civilization was excellent.

Powaqqatsi was great as well Jack!

Deathturd, I love the Germs and Fear. (Met Lee Ving in DC about 15 years ago.)

Everyone knows Ennio Morricone's The Good the Bad and the Ugly theme, but IMO his best work was in the music for Duck You Sucker aka Fistful of Dynamite. I can't get enough of this quirky soundtrack.

The film is great too BTW.

Highlander. Queen.
Takes me back to High School geekdom.

The Wonder Boys and Rushmore

GoDogGo! wrote:Very Guilty Pleasure: Giorgio Moroder's soundtrack to 1982's "Cat People."

I have it on LP, in a closet. I almost linked to it last night.



Live version pretty much rocks

Last of the Mohicans.

The first two that come to mind:

"The Lost Boys"

"Apocalypse Now"

Then:

"To Live and Die In L.A."

seeahill wrote:Last of the Mohicans.

Yepper, have that one on DvD.

nafod wrote:

seeahill wrote:Last of the Mohicans.

Yepper, have that one on DvD.

I might be the only person on earth who has not watched this movie.

Big Chief Bogatir wrote:

nafod wrote:

seeahill wrote:Last of the Mohicans.

Yepper, have that one on DvD.

I might be the only person on earth who has not watched this movie.

Fanfuckingtastic movie. One of my favorites.

Big Chief Bogatir wrote:
"To Live and Die In L.A."

Wang Chung!!!

Actually, the title song is one of my all-time favorite songs. Classic 80's sound.


However...for movie soundtracks...there can be only one.

I just got the album "The Rocky Story". All the best songs from the Rocky series.
Eye of the Tiger
No Easy Way Out
Burining Hearts
Living in America
Gonna Fly Now versions
Training Montage music
Other shit

From the movie Sunshine

Kazuya Mishima wrote:

Big Chief Bogatir wrote:
"To Live and Die In L.A."

Wang Chung!!!

Actually, the title song is one of my all-time favorite songs. Classic 80's sound.


However...for movie soundtracks...there can be only one.

One of the all time great car chase scenes in that flick, too.

Jack wrote: Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack by Philip Glass is astounding, btw.

Speaking of which, YouTube has the entire film.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6C9u7ras&feature=dir

The Conan soundtrack is one of my favs. A must have.

Don't miss James Horner. He's done more than Titanic.



This is his Aliens soundtrack. If you get it, get the Deluxe Edition.

More Phillip Glass, soundtrack from The Hours.

I just remembered "The Hired Hand", a really good little western from the early 70's directed by Peter Fonda. I think he produced it too with his Easy Rider money. I netflixed it because Warren Oates was in it.

Anyway, the soundtrack by Bruce Langhorne was incredible. He played all of the instruments himself and the result is a very haunting and memorable score.

A few years ago I had a stretch of about a week where this soundtrack was all I would listen to in the truck.

Rent the flick and check it out.

vern wrote:I just remembered "The Hired Hand", a really good little western from the early 70's directed by Peter Fonda. I think he produced it too with his Easy Rider money. I netflixed it because Warren Oates was in it.

Anyway, the soundtrack by Bruce Langhorne was incredible. He played all of the instruments himself and the result is a very haunting and memorable score.

A few years ago I had a stretch of about a week where this soundtrack was all I would listen to in the truck.

Rent the flick and check it out.

It's very slow, but builds to perfect ending. Under rated. I too think the soundtrack is first rate.